Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett will break ground on a $46 million hospital expansion project on Thursday.

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare applied for Tennessee's consent to build the 96-bed facility in September 2008. The project will add 83,000 square feet to the existing hospital.

The Bartlett Industrial Development Board granted a nine-year tax incentive for the expansion in November 2009. That deal will give the hospital a 50 percent break on real and personal property taxes owed the suburb.

The new facility is expected to bring about 155 full-time jobs, which will have an average salary of $44,720, according to the hospital's PILOT application

The hospital is on Kate Bond west of Germantown Road on the north side of Stage.